Re: ID at NRO

Bill Dozier wrote:

"...I constantly hear people talking about how God "tweaks" or "steps in", etc. The tacit assumption behind talk like that is that at times when He is not "tweaking" the Universe somehow manages on its own...."

I've often thought that many of the theological disputes among Christians down through the centuries owe more to misunderstanding of how people use their words than anything else. None of the Christians I know who use expressions like "God tweaks" mean to imply that God is not active when he does not tweak. They'd tell you so if you'd ask. What they mean (in my experience) is that God in the given situation makes nature do something that it would not have done on its own. Example: Raise Jesus from the dead. To the best of my knowledge no Christian believes that the universe ever "manages on its own."

Don
Received on Wed Feb 16 09:33:28 2005